Property owners basically fund NH schools and the state only chips in 20% as where the national state contributing average is 50%. I have been a tax paying property owner for over 25 years here, this is not sustainable. Legalize all Cannabis products and make it legal to grow it myself (live free or die) and use 100% profits to help pay for our local schools, get rid of all vouchers. There you have my solution, get with it Dems!
See my response to Maddog. Likely too late to gain much new revenue by legalizing pot as Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Canada already have maturing markets. As a gubernatorial candidate, I supported allowing farms in NH to grow pot for regulated sales but the farms could only be in communities with below average property values. This form of economic development would have potentially helped with school funding inequities. Berlin, for example, is set up with heated greenhouses adjacent to the Burgess Bio Mass plant.
I have been waiting for 55+ years (I am 74) to be able to legally use recreational marijuana, so I naturally was anxious as EVERY STATE AND A WHOLE COUNTRY around me legalized (and taxed) it other than the LIVE FREE OR DIE state.
Recently I read an article from a NH Legislator who had been championing marijuana legalization who said that due to the new governor's priorities that we probably would have to wait another ten years. Now I have an idea of what those priorities are.
Since the last two years of marijuana wrangling seems to be along the lines of "There are so many ways to license and sell marijuana that we just can not figure out how to do it"...never mind there are many states that are already doing this...I suggest this remedy:
Decriminalize simple possession of up to 16 ounces.
That is all. This means that people could grow a few plants or travel to a progressive state, purchase a pound, then return to "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire and smoke a joint or back an edible. Of course this will mean that all the jobs and revenue will go to other states, but hey....
Oh, and pardon all the people in state prisons and jails that have been arrested and found guilty of "simple possession.
Easy,,,but I am sure that NH government will make it hard.
Hello, Maddog. Possession of small amounts of marijuana by persons 21 or older in NH is already "decriminalized" in that it is subject to punishment by a non-criminal fine. The offense is considered a "violation" for someone 21 or older and a misdemeanor for someone 18-21. See RSA 318-B:2-c. What you are suggesting is legalization and in an amount far more than what NH allows. As I have written before, NH is an island surrounded by legal pot sales and should legalize pot for recreational use. The ship has likely sailed on recognizing much revenue from legalization and your suggestion of just making it legal is probably worth serious consideration. People can debate the amount that can legally be possessed. Irony lives in the Live Free state.
Thank you VERY much for your reply. I had heard of the "decriminalization" of marijuana, but had forgotten about that fine (no pun intended) point of law.
However even a small fine from a misdemeanor is a punishment requiring a loss of funds and a record of the fact you possessed that small amount, still unacceptable (in my mind) for the "Live Free or Die" state.
The suggestion of a pound was half facetious, but it should be more than a gram or a quarter ounce so citizens in the interior of the state do not have to keep traveling to other states every couple of days to get supplied. Or people that want to grow a few plants for personal use to not have to worry that "one more plant" goes over the legal limit.
In the end a misdemeanor is still a crime, and an adult partaking of marijuana in their own home, or transporting it from a progressive state into their own state for private consumption should not be a crime of any sort.
I would suggest that both liquor and cigarettes would have no prohibition of inter-state transport if states did not make tax money off them. Even home-brewing is allowed if under 200 gallons a year and for private consumption. Why not growing marijuana?
I could not contain myself from a hard eye roll after listening to the “Governor” say that she’s gonna ban cell phones, and that was her answer to all of the multitude of issues she could’ve picked …that was the one that mattered most. Pathetic.
Property owners basically fund NH schools and the state only chips in 20% as where the national state contributing average is 50%. I have been a tax paying property owner for over 25 years here, this is not sustainable. Legalize all Cannabis products and make it legal to grow it myself (live free or die) and use 100% profits to help pay for our local schools, get rid of all vouchers. There you have my solution, get with it Dems!
See my response to Maddog. Likely too late to gain much new revenue by legalizing pot as Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Canada already have maturing markets. As a gubernatorial candidate, I supported allowing farms in NH to grow pot for regulated sales but the farms could only be in communities with below average property values. This form of economic development would have potentially helped with school funding inequities. Berlin, for example, is set up with heated greenhouses adjacent to the Burgess Bio Mass plant.
I have been waiting for 55+ years (I am 74) to be able to legally use recreational marijuana, so I naturally was anxious as EVERY STATE AND A WHOLE COUNTRY around me legalized (and taxed) it other than the LIVE FREE OR DIE state.
Recently I read an article from a NH Legislator who had been championing marijuana legalization who said that due to the new governor's priorities that we probably would have to wait another ten years. Now I have an idea of what those priorities are.
Since the last two years of marijuana wrangling seems to be along the lines of "There are so many ways to license and sell marijuana that we just can not figure out how to do it"...never mind there are many states that are already doing this...I suggest this remedy:
Decriminalize simple possession of up to 16 ounces.
That is all. This means that people could grow a few plants or travel to a progressive state, purchase a pound, then return to "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire and smoke a joint or back an edible. Of course this will mean that all the jobs and revenue will go to other states, but hey....
Oh, and pardon all the people in state prisons and jails that have been arrested and found guilty of "simple possession.
Easy,,,but I am sure that NH government will make it hard.
Hello, Maddog. Possession of small amounts of marijuana by persons 21 or older in NH is already "decriminalized" in that it is subject to punishment by a non-criminal fine. The offense is considered a "violation" for someone 21 or older and a misdemeanor for someone 18-21. See RSA 318-B:2-c. What you are suggesting is legalization and in an amount far more than what NH allows. As I have written before, NH is an island surrounded by legal pot sales and should legalize pot for recreational use. The ship has likely sailed on recognizing much revenue from legalization and your suggestion of just making it legal is probably worth serious consideration. People can debate the amount that can legally be possessed. Irony lives in the Live Free state.
Thank you VERY much for your reply. I had heard of the "decriminalization" of marijuana, but had forgotten about that fine (no pun intended) point of law.
However even a small fine from a misdemeanor is a punishment requiring a loss of funds and a record of the fact you possessed that small amount, still unacceptable (in my mind) for the "Live Free or Die" state.
The suggestion of a pound was half facetious, but it should be more than a gram or a quarter ounce so citizens in the interior of the state do not have to keep traveling to other states every couple of days to get supplied. Or people that want to grow a few plants for personal use to not have to worry that "one more plant" goes over the legal limit.
In the end a misdemeanor is still a crime, and an adult partaking of marijuana in their own home, or transporting it from a progressive state into their own state for private consumption should not be a crime of any sort.
I would suggest that both liquor and cigarettes would have no prohibition of inter-state transport if states did not make tax money off them. Even home-brewing is allowed if under 200 gallons a year and for private consumption. Why not growing marijuana?
The answer is straightforward:
Legalize "simple possession" for adults.
Selling can still be illegal in New Hampshire.
Minors can be protected.
We can discuss the amount.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
After posting my reply I realized that the adult punishment was a "violation" and the 18-21 punishment was a "misdemeanor".
Even a "violation" is too much, and is an example of an obnoxious law that is intended to do nothing.
I could not contain myself from a hard eye roll after listening to the “Governor” say that she’s gonna ban cell phones, and that was her answer to all of the multitude of issues she could’ve picked …that was the one that mattered most. Pathetic.